Gary Heston wrote:

In article <4730688e@news2.actrix.gen.nz>,
~misfit~ <misfit61nz@yahooligans.co.nz> wrote:

Somewhere on the interweb "Patrick Vervoorn" typed:

In article <472e80ff$1@news2.actrix.gen.nz>,
~misfit~ <misfit61nz@yahooligans.co.nz> wrote:

Hi Patrick! Fancy seeing you here. Usenet's a small world huh?

Somewhere on the interweb "Patrick Vervoorn" typed:

Why not just let it crunch at 100%? It's running at a relatively
low priority as is?

There's a couple reasons  I don't want it to run at 100%. Firstly,
I'm on a very limited income and my PC is one of the biggest
consumers of electricity in my house. That's why I stopped
crunching with my Barton, it was sucking the power (and throwing
out the heat) and my electricity bills dropped heaps when I stopped
crunching.

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You can reduce power consumption by reducing the clock rate--then run
BOINC at 100% to eliminate the temperature cycle problem you're
seeing.

True. However, I like to *overclock*, not underclock. :-)

I have another machine with one of the new Core2 Solo Celerons in it running 
at 2.13GHz (overclocked from 1.6GHz) and a couple gig of RAM that uses 
minimal power. I guess I could dedicate that 100% to BOINC.
-- 
TTFN,

Shaun.